Exhibit 31

                      RULE 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) CERTIFICATION

I, Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer, certify that:

1.        I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2008 of Food Technology Service, Inc., (the "small business
issuer").

2.        Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statement made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.        Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects,
the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small
business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.        The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15d-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and
internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(f)-15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have:

       (a)       Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision,
to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer,
including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within
those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared;

       (b)       Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or
caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our
supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

       (c)  Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer's
disclosure controls and procedures, and presented in this report our
conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such
evaluation; and

       (d)       Disclosed in this report any change in the small business
issuer's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the
small business issuer's most recent fiscal quarter (small business issuer's
ourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business
issuer's internal control over financial reporting; and

5.  The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I have
disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and the audit
committee of small business issuer's board of directors (or persons performing
the equivalent functions):

       (a)       All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer's ability to
record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

       (b)       Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer's
internal control over financial reporting.

Date:  March 30, 2009

                                         By:   /s/ Richard G. Hunter
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                                               Richard G. Hunter, Ph.D,
                                               Chief Executive Officer and
                                               Chief Financial Officer